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Medlife Crisis (Rohin)

@medcrisis.bsky.social

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Dr Rohin Francis. Consultant cardiologist with a sub-specialisation in useless videos, found on YouTube and Nebula. Less funny than placebo (p<0.05) Dad, doctor, dork

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Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 3d

🍋 New video! 🍋

Come take a walk with me through some Sicilian farmland and hear one of my favourite stories about how a ‘weakness’ of human evolution resulted the rise of the Cosa Nostra

(this is my second channel, you should subscribe to it to boost my ego)

youtu.be/7I9xL6Z4K5k?...

How a quirk of human biology created the mafia

YouTube video by Medlife Crisis 2

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 7h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 7h

Quote: I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember this too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick. Stewart Lee

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Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 7h

I tend to keep them in one place with my invisible net. Provided I can find it.

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Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 7h

Still no Indian news coverage on bluesky. Maybe for the best, another grim story about a medical student gang raped, in Durgapur, West Bengal. Just one year on from the brutal rape and murder of a resident doctor in the same state. Nothing is improving.
www.ndtv.com/india-news/3...

www.ndtv.com

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Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 7h

More about the first case bsky.app/profile/mvij...

manish vij @mvij.org · 10h

43 years ago, FBI framed a Tam-Brahm hippie / Penn State faculty kid for murdering his friend because it was convenient (odd, brown, small-time acid dealer, gun owner). He’s just been cleared, and ICE grabbed him https://bellisariostudentmedia.psu.edu/story/cold-case-brings-indian-community-together

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Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 7h

That country is utterly lost. God this is so bleak. Combined with yesterday’s deeply upsetting story about Kingsley Bimpong dying from a stroke in police custody, the video of which is so horrific I cannot imagine how his family felt watching it, the US plumbs new depths every day. Don’t go there.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 14h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 8h

I like to think this was just one guy’s CV

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 9h

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 1d

@profaliceroberts.bsky.social getting absolutely merked by the guardian graphic overlay there. Would be ironic if it was a TV programme about misogyny

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Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 1d

You are absolutely right to see these smart device measurements as tools to track your own progress against yourself, rather than against others

Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 1d

but is not robustly supported by evidence and is very popular with quacks who measure some biomarker and grossly over interpret the meaning. Basically I’m objecting more to the way it’s reported and interpreted rather than the tool itself

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Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a difference between giving a patient a mental framework to understand where they stand in comparison to their peers based on population data vs quoting the result as an objective fact, which is how these articles are reported. The whole “biological age” concept has become commonplace now

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Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 1d

Yes I think this tool is not helpful. It’s an attempt to risk stratify based on conventional risk factors, which doctors would quote as a 5 or 10 year % risk of having a cardiac event. This is a bit abstract so the idea of biological age has been floated to convey risk; not as an actual measurement

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Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 1d

I have the cardiac age of a 450 year old Greenland shark

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Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 1d

Whether it’s Trump being fluffed by some doctor with no credibility, or Bryan Johnson’s claims of “having a biological age of 21” being unquestioningly reported, the press seem utterly unable to do any research before writing. These are not validated metrics. They are not real. It is meaningless.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 1d

Cardiac ✨tingles✨ ❤️❤️

Actually hang on I think that’s a heart attack

Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 2d

No joke my drive home was closed yesterday by a chicken lorry catching on fire. Full HP by the time I got home

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Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 2d

Life of a flowboy 🫀

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Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 2d

Tony Revolori, who was the breakout star of Grand Budapest Hotel, has Guatemalan ancestry. He is not Indian. But I’m watching him in the Hindi movie Umrika playing an Indian boy alongside Suraj Sharma (Life of Pi). Not just Hindi, but the kind of rural dialect bhojpuri. Such a random role for him!

Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 2d

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somecallmeDC 🐥 🥚 💡 (not that DC) @somecallmedc.bsky.social · 2d

This were suggested in youtube. @medcrisis.bsky.social dissects and examines how medical pseudoscience is spread. For people that take interest in misinformation and conspiracy theories, there are familiar names named.

The wacky world of wellness-influencer-to-consumer communication - Dr Rohin Francis

YouTube video by CEBM Oxford

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Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 2d

Why I am on the internet less. About 70% of what I see is

Person 1: There is no evidence that this works
Person 2: All right, so show me evidence that this doesn’t work
Person 1: What?
Person 2: Exactly

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Tania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · 2d

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An unsurprising wellness hack from a British tabloid, & a bit more surprising from a professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College London.

Like #COVID, #LongCOVID is preventable.

But it's not caused by what you ingest, it's caused by what you inhale -

www.themirror.com/news/health/...

Expert says avoid one kind of food to help fight off Covid and long Covid

Tim Spector, professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London, has said that what we eat can help bolster our body's defences against viruses and potentially help avoid serious consequences ...

www.themirror.com

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Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 3d

Funnily enough a mutual friend of Chris’s and mine sent me this video yesterday. It’s quite remarkable that the diagnoses one receives when suffering unusual symptoms are highly correlated with your political beliefs and the social circle you move in

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Sequoia Alexander (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️✨🦄 @sequoia.farm · 3d

I learned from a @medcrisis.bsky.social cardiology lecture that older men often show up with health problems from too much T. Right wing wellness influencers convince them to take T to fight their bodies natural hormone cycles and be more “masculine”. It can be unhealthy for them.

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Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 3d

How a quirk of human biology created the mafia

YouTube video by Medlife Crisis 2

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